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Category: OpenText

OpenText recently invited more than 350 customers, prospects, partners, and analysts to its Dialogue 2016 conference in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The team rebranded this former HP Engage event to focus on the digital transformation for meaningful conversations across multiple channels. This was the first major event to take place after OpenText acquired the HP Engage and HP Exstream assets for a total transaction price of $485 million.

Last year’s event expanded the focus to the full HP Software portfolio, while this year’s event generally focused more narrowly on the Exstream, TeleForm, and LiquidOffice investments. As in previous years, the event focused on extensive educational sessions directed toward IT and marketing professionals, with networking opportunities to help cultivate a stronger user community. Here are our key takeaways from the event.

On Monday, Open Text announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire most of HP Inc.’s Engage software portfolio for $170 million. However, HP made only the briefest of statements on the sale and the announcement was not even posted on the central HP news webpage.

On March 7-8, OpenText’s Innovation Tour 2016 took place nearby Munich, Germany. This user conference, part of a global series of events held in five cities around the world, hosted more than 750 participants. The conference featured keynote speeches, several customer and partner presentations, and breakout session focusing on a variety of topics around the digitalization of the enterprise – all focused on this year’s theme of Enabling the Digital World.

In his keynote, Mark Barrenechea, CEO and CTO of OpenText, talked about the digital enterprise revolution, the importance of enterprise information management (EIM), and their next generation EIM platform: Release 16. Here are the key take-aways from his keynote.